Programmable field mounted device

US7299348B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG · CH

Inventors

• Jochen Stinus · Inzlingen, DE
• Monika Banzhaf · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 22, 2004
• Grant date: Nov 20, 2007
• Expiry date: Dec 22, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F15/7867
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A programmable field mounted device which operates when a computational process operates in the device electronics. The device has an activated first memory area storing a first programmable configuration and a deactivated second memory area storing a second programmable configuration. the second memory area is modified. Simultaneously, the first programmable configuration in the first memory area is executed by the computational process. Upon completion of configuring the second memory area, the first memory area is deactivated and the second memory area is activated for executing by the computational process.